Word: fading
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bellboys' rapid fade-out in the season's finale was largely due to the absence of first-stringers Hatton and Mallot, but the V-12 men consistently outplayed the civilians, holding their star, Haskell, to eight points. Donahoe contributed 13 markers for the losers, while Kavanagh and Hull netted 13 and 12, respectively for the C squad...
...Japanese continued to fade away from the south and west of his beachhead, offering major resistance only in the northeast, Krueger had good reason to be satisfied. Said he: "Of course I would have preferred to come to grips with the enemy. But you can't figure out what, when, how or why the Japanese act as they do, and I'm not worrying about...
Needed: An Eisenhower? In November 1943, Stalin, Churchill and Roosevelt met with considerable fanfare at Teheran. There, it seemed, the political and military guidance of the world for 1944 had been charted. As the year wore on, the luster of Teheran began to fade. There was a general cry for another meeting of the Big Three-but there was also a demand for an inter-Allied political command, modeled on the military structure of the Combined Chiefs of Staff in Washington, or on the inter-Allied command machinery with which Eisenhower had planned and carried out the greatest achievement...
...YEAR 1944 IS THE COMMON FIGHTING MAN. LET TIME GLORIFY NO INDIVIDUAL POLITICIAN OR GENERAL WHOSE MOMENTARY FAME MAY QUICKLY FADE. THE ISSUES OF THIS YEAR ARE BEING DECIDED BY THE BLOODY SACRIFICES OF MILLIONS OF ORDINARY HEROES...
There was some reason to believe that the President's personal preference for the Morgenthau Plan would fade under the steady pressure of the two Cabinet officers who will actually have the most responsibility in the occupation of Germany. Furthermore, it might cost votes from those citizens who would prefer a more careful-and less vindictive-program for the re-education of Germany. And finally, it was of the highest political urgency that the latest Cabinet split be mended before Candidate Dewey hammered again at the "old, tired, quarrelsome" men of Washington...